Sacituzumab govitecan displayed encouraging progression-free survival rates compared with single-agent chemotherapy in patients with locally recurrent inoperable or metastatic hormone receptor–positive, HER2-negative breast cancer, according to findings from the phase 3 TROPiCS-02 study.
Adana A.M. Llanos, PhD, MPH, discusses key research on the social and biological factors that influence disparities in breast cancer, how these factors work in tandem to affect patient outcomes, and how this knowledge can be deployed in the real world.
Michael Dickinson, MBBS, expands on data from a phase 2 dose-expansion study of glofitamab in heavily pretreated, highly refractory large B-cell lymphoma, explains the effect bispecific antibodies could have on treatment, and highlights other research efforts surrounding glofitamab-based therapies.
A dramatic presentation at the 2022 American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting changed treatment standards seemingly overnight for women with previously treated metastatic HER2-low breast cancer. However, fundamental questions remain.
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Researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Center have discovered that the drug efflux pump MDR1 promotes resistance to a promising new class of drugs called PROTACS—proteolysis-targeting chimeras.
For the first time, the American Society for Radiation Oncology has issued recommendations on the use of radiation therapy to treat patients with IDH-mutant grade 2 and grade 3 diffuse glioma, including oligodendroglioma and astrocytoma.
The first-in-class dual PIM/FLT3 kinase inhibitor, SEL24/MEN1703, showcased encouraging efficacy and a tolerable safety profile in patients with acute myeloid leukemia whose tumors harbor a IDH1/2 mutation.
Shaji Kumar, MD, and Jonathan Kaufman, MD, review the advances with translocations such as t(11;14), treating practices, and emerging markers in multiple myeloma.
Erlotinib continued to elicit a disease-free survival and overall survival benefit vs vinorelbine/cisplatin chemotherapy in patients with EGFR-positive non–small cell lung cancer, according to updated OS data and an exploratory analysis from the phase 2 EVAN trial.
Belantamab mafodotin monotherapy demonstrated anticancer activity with a tolerable safety profile in heavily pretreated patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma.
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New treatments, particularly immunotherapies, are providing durable benefits for patients with hepatocellular carcinoma.
Chemotherapy prior to transanal excision surgery demonstrated favorable responses that led to increased organ preservation rates among patients with early rectal cancer, according to findings from the phase 2 NEO trial.
Daratumumab combinations elicited significant progression-free survival, overall survival, overall response rate, and minimal residual disease–negativity benefits vs control in pretreated patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma across clinically relevant subgroups.
Although cutaneous T-cell lymphoma, a group of non-Hodgkin T-cell lymphomas, remains a rare disease, incidence has increased steadily since the 1970s.
The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region’s Department of Health has accepted for review a biologics license application seeking the approval of tafasitamab plus lenalidomide in patients with relapsed or refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.
First-line treatment with pivekimab sunirine generated responses with favorable tolerability in patients with blastic plasmacytoid dendritic cell neoplasm, according to data from the phase 2 CADENZA trial.
A subgroup analysis of the phase 2 GRIFFIN trial confirmed that Black patients with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma elicited a benefit from treatment with daratumumab added to lenalidomide, bortezomib, and dexamethasone without additional toxicities.
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Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute is pleased to welcome Jon Meyers, Nicole Radford, FACHE, MS, MT(ASCP), Bob Simon, Paul D. Summitt, and Samantha Watkins to its senior management team.
The addition of vopratelimab to pimivalimab did not elicit a significant mean percent change of baseline tumor size in all measurable lesions vs pimivalimab alone in patients with immunotherapy-naïve, metastatic non–small cell lung cancer who were positive for the TISvopra predictive biomarker.
Sotorasib demonstrated superiority and a statistically significant benefit in progression-free survival vs standard-of-care docetaxel in previously treated patients with KRAS G12C–mutated non–small cell lung cancer.
Subcutaneous administration of isatuximab through a syringe pump or on-body delivery system demonstrated similar efficacy and safety compared with intravenous isatuximab when combined with pomalidomide and dexamethasone in patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.
The combination of gefitinib plus chemotherapy generated a benefit in time to second progression vs gefitinib alone in untreated patients with EGFR-mutated non–small cell lung cancer.
Treatment with either encorafenib plus cetuximab with or without binimetinib or standard chemotherapy each demonstrated comparable progression-free survival and overall survival in pretreated patients with BRAF V600E–mutated metastatic colorectal cancer.
The FDA has granted permission for enrollment to resume in the monotherapy phase 1a portion of the phase 1/2 TakeAim Leukemia trial evaluating emavusertib in relapsed/refractory acute myeloid leukemia or high-risk myelodysplastic syndromes.
Rami Komrokji, MD, expands on the disease factors and treatment options for lower-risk and higher-risk myelodysplastic syndromes, and highlights other key updates in chronic lymphocytic leukemia, mantle cell lymphoma, diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, and myelofibrosis.
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Antoinette Stroup, PhD, shares personal and professional insight on the disaggregation of cancer health statistics regarding the Asian American and Pacific Islander community.
Daiichi Sankyo submitted a supplemental new drug application to Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare for the use of quizartinib in patients with newly diagnosed, FLT3-ITD–positive acute myeloid leukemia.
Treatment with soluble EphB4-human serum albumin plus pembrolizumab elicited synergistic activity and an improved overall survival and objective response rate compared with historical data for PD-1/PD-L1 monotherapy in patients with platinum-refractory metastatic urothelial carcinoma.
Several inroads have been made in the realm of gastrointestinal cancers, with novel immunotherapy combinations representing a significant advance spanning several tumor types.
The combination of plinabulin and pegfilgrastim was well tolerated patients with multiple myeloma who have undergone autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation and who have received a high dose of melphalan.
